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Apple stock price closed at an all-time high: Why the surge despite a mixed reaction to its AI event?
It’s been a big week for Apple—and an even bigger week for Apple investors. Yesterday, the company’s stock (ticker AAPL) closed at an all-time...
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OpenAI promised to give us ‘Her.’ Apple’s AI is giving us Gary from ‘Veep’
During the World Wide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple’s long-awaited entry into artificial intelligence took shape. While a recent OpenAI...
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Apple just took AI and cleverly rebranded it as its own
Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. Apple’s announcement at this...
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This Detroit startup is bringing e-bike manufacturing to the U.S.
In the PWJS factory, an hour’s drive from Detroit, workers have been making auto parts for four decades. But across the street, a new...
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Trump’s ‘Never Surrender’ logo brands a new era of grievance politics
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign has a new logo. And while the overall design of this new secondary logo will look familiar to those...
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Disney’s launch of its Tiana’s Bayou Adventure ride is a joyous, yet precarious, balancing act
As you approach Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at Walt Disney World, there’s a sign pointing to one of two queue lines. Beneath it, there’s another that...
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The mental toll of being cash-poor and credit-rich is getting worse for middle-class Americans
We’re halfway through 2024 and Americans are still living paycheck to paycheck with limited savings or an inability to endure a cash emergency....
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How to succeed at work when you don’t get enough feedback from your boss
Whether you believe that “feedback is a gift” or that it is the neurological equivalent of hearing footsteps in the dark, as David Rock from the...
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Raspberry Pi is going public on Friday. Its biggest fans are dreading it
When Raspberry Pi launched, in 2012, it was a tech tinkerer’s dream come true. With a price of just $35, the credit card-sized computer...
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Gen Z women are less likely to use AI than Gen Z men. Here’s why
Gen Z is growing up in the age of AI-powered large language models like ChatGPT and Gemini AI . Now this generation of young workers born...
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Cell-cultivated meat has an image problem
Last week, the opinion survey website YouGov released the results of a recent poll asking more than 9,000 U.S. adults: If in the hypothetical...
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These ‘giant’ viruses could be a solution to melting Arctic ice
A lot of seemingly outlandish ideas have been floated as ways to cool the rapidly warming planet in recent years. Cloud brightening ? That...
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These satellites let you track natural disasters and environmental changes
If you want to track changes in the Amazon rainforest , see the full expanse of a hurricane or figure out where people need help after a...
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Hospitals are energy hogs. These clever design choices are making them greener
Hospitals and life sciences labs expend tremendous amounts of energy saving lives. Now, architects are devising new ways to make sure their energy...
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3 hidden benefits of small talk
One feature of working in a physical office is that you bump into colleagues all the time. If you find yourself with a coworker in the break room,...
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Freitag’s new upcycled bags are made from real airbags—and expand just like them, too
Each one of Freitag’s new upcycled bags is unique, from the color of the handles to the pastel patterns of the material and the stitching that...
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Space startups’ biggest challenge for takeoff: Getting regulatory approval
SpaceX’s next rideshare launch is almost upon us, and that means satellite companies have spent the last quarter scrambling to obtain the...
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After months of talks, Paramount and Skydance merger falls apart
A little over a week after reports surfaced that Paramount Global and Skydance had finally agreed to terms of a merger, that deal appears to have...
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EPA’s ‘forever chemicals’ drinking-water rule faces fresh legal challenges
U.S. manufacturing and chemical industry groups have filed a lawsuit seeking to block a federal rule announced this year setting the first-ever...
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If you think failure is the secret to success, you’re wrong. Here’s why
When we fail, we tell ourselves there’s a silver lining: that failure is a necessary stepping stone for success. Thomas Edison wrote that he...
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Apple’s top software engineer on AI: “We wanted to establish an entirely different bar” (Exclusive)
Artificial intelligence has wowed me, but it was never something I wanted to use daily, especially because it required a cumbersome number of...
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GM cuts EV forecast by 50,000 and announces a $6 billion share buyback plan
General Motors cut its annual EV production forecast and announced a new $6 billion share buyback plan on Tuesday, as the automaker banks on...
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WeWork exits bankruptcy and names new CEO after Tolley steps down
WeWork CEO David Tolley stepped down after the flexible workspace provider emerged from bankruptcy on Tuesday, bookending a months-long...
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Johnson & Johnson to pay $700 million settlement over talc products linked to cancer
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $700 million to settle an investigation by 42 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. into its marketing of...
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Ancestry.com is using AI to make a searchable database for Black family trees
Ancestry.com is releasing a new collection of searchable newspaper articles published before the 1900s that contain details on formerly enslaved...